• The electron is the fastest thing in the world.

• The bigger the raindrops, the brighter the rainbow will be, and the sharper the difference between the colours.

• At latitude 60 degrees south, you can sail all around the world without hitting land.

• A day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes and ten seconds long. To make up for the missing minutes, we have a Leap Year every four years, when an extra day is added to February – the 29th.

• Bookkeeper and bookkeeping are the only words in the English language with three consecutive double letters.

I was reading a book on amazing facts about our planet which I used to read during my younger days (yea, very long ago). These facts are those I quite liked (and still do).